The smithy offers the following service: Leather Branding. For 1 GP, Kalista can brand anything made of leather, such as Leather Armor or a Spellbook, with the keep’s coat of arms. Kalista makes armaments but doesn’t sell them. She forges them exclusively for the keep’s armed forces.
Wield the Remnants of a Dying God’s Power Your pact draws on the power of a dying god, a being once worshipped by countless followers but now abandoned and forgotten. This dying god, known as a vestige, might have been benevolent, evil, or strange and unknowable, but now it is driven to regain its former power. The vestige needs your help, and it is willing to share its remaining strength with…
The dragonmarked heirs of House Sivis are typically accomplished gnome scholars of magic. In addition to the might that comes with their marks, they favor magical sigils and words of power.
The Food, Drink, and Lodging table gives prices for food and a single night’s lodging. Prices for daily lodging and meals are included in your lifestyle’s expenses.
Knights frequently lead troops in combat or work in units that dominate the battlefield. They’re often attended by squires, who might be less skilled soldiers or commoners.
Type: Tool Cost: 15 GP Weight: 5 lbs Ability: Dexterity Utilize: Mimic 10 or fewer words of someone else’s handwriting (DC 15), or duplicate a wax seal (DC 20) If you have proficiency with a tool, add your Proficiency Bonus to any ability check you make that uses the tool. If you have proficiency in a skill that’s used with that check, you have Advantage on the check too.
The creature rerolls the saving throw, either adding your spellcasting modifier to or subtracting it from the new roll. It must use the new result. Available For: Cleric (Legacy), Cleric
You write on parchment, paper, or another suitable material and imbue it with an illusion that lasts for the duration. To you and any creatures you designate when you cast the spell, the writing appears normal, seems to be written in your hand, and conveys whatever meaning you intended when you wrote the text. To all others, the writing appears as if it were written in an unknown or magical…
Spies use charm and deception to veil their true intentions. If forced into combat, they seek to end such conflicts quietly and decisively.
| 1d8 | The Wight Returned from the Dead To... |
|---|---|
| 1 | Challenge anyone who passes near its grave on a certain cursed night. |
| 2 | Conquer the land it believes it should rule. … |
The gatehouse offers the following service: Requisition Uniforms. Characters who pledge to defend the keep can requisition uniforms from Andrella free of charge. Give those players one Borderlands Tabard each.
Drivers or crew hired to conduct passengers to their destinations charge the rates on the Travel table, plus any tolls or additional expenses.
Dark Bargains are binding once sealed. There are tales and legends of those who have outwitted a bargainer or found a way to break a bargain’s hold on them, but the truth of such stories is left to the GM to decide.
Set the scene, give space for the party to react, have Pag walk into the party’s path, then continue:
The guild house offers the following services: Customize Equipment. A character can hire an artisan to customize their equipment, such as emblazoning a Shield with a symbol of their choice or embellishing the binding of a Spellbook. The standard rate is 5 GP per piece of equipment. Research. The library contains books on history, magic, and the creatures of the Borderlands. For 1 GP, a character…
| Spell Level | Availability | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Cantrip | Village, town, or city | 30 GP |
| 1 | Village, town, or city | 50 GP … |
Darklord: Flimira Vhage Hallmarks: Detective work, memory loss Everything inside the office of the Agency is a monotone gray. Anyone who passes the frosted glass door into this single-room domain is expected by Flimira “Flintlock” Vhage, the detective agency’s owner. From here, Flimira collects cryptic correspondence relating to mysteries across the Domains of Dread. She enlists agents to…
When magical energy becomes dangerously unstable, it sometimes animates into an eldritch eddy: an uncontrolled whirlwind of Evocation magic that crackles with fire and lightning. Eldritch eddies typically arise where magic use is heavy and irresponsible, such as near a fanatical mage’s sanctum, a workshop that churns out magic items, or a library where undertrained scribes work with Spell Scrolls…
Witchwoven are little dolls or effigies made of sticks, twine, and other simple materials, then imbued with life. Some happen naturally in places suffused with old nature magic, but most are created to serve as familiars by spellcasters knowledgeable in the Old Ways.
Of course I’m furious! Even when they didn’t just dance away from our blows, we could barely scratch them. Three nimblewrights were too much for my squad to handle. A thousand will put every soldier in this land out of work. —Mafat A’Haddin, soldier
When the characters arrive at the moors, read or paraphrase the following: The moors outside of Wickermoor Village are treacherous even in the best of times. But now, a violent storm batters the highlands, and rain floods the sodden grounds. Townsfolk scatter in a frenzy, some fleeing toward the village, others vanishing into the depths of the moors. The ground is strewn with bodies, cut down by…
Wondrous Item, legendary This item first appears to be a sealed iron barrel weighing 500 pounds. The barrel has a hidden catch, which can be found with a successful DC 20 Intelligence (Investigation) check. Releasing the catch unlocks a hatch at one end of the barrel, allowing two Medium or smaller creatures to crawl inside. Ten levers are set in a row at the far end, each in a neutral…
A Wizard and her familiar spend an afternoon shopping This section outlines services and other expenses that adventurers might spend money on.
Unfortunately, finding these dandyish devils’ contractual loopholes is not nearly as much fun as I had hoped. —ASTARION ON HARVESTER DEVILS
Content Warning Manipulation by a person of authority, spiders.
Become One with a Cosmic Being Your patron is a cosmic parasite, draining the vitality of entire peoples and worlds. Upon forging a pact with such a patron, you become host to one of its nascent offspring. As you grow in power, the boundary between your identity and the parasitic larva within blurs. Level 3: Spell Siphon Your patron has taught you to siphon magic from your enemies and make it…
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